Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1920 — Page 1

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VOL. XXXII. NO. 213.

HOW TO LIMIT EXTRA SESSION PROVES PUZZLE

G. O. P. Trying to Perfect Organization That Can Enforce Gag Scheme.

CALL ISSUED FOR FRIDAY

With a special session of the state legislature called for Friday morning, and with barely more than two-thlrai. of the members of each house pledged to limit it to the consideration of the ratification of the national suffrage amendment, republican led tiers today were bending their efforts to the formation -of an organization in each house to prevent the possibility of any activity which might prolong the session. A two-thirds vote will be necessary to pass the ratification amendment in one day. This will mean that nearly every member who has signed a pledge must be present and must vote for the suspension of the rules. Even with this assured there appears to be nothing to prevent members, who have not pledged themselves to limit the session, from at least introducing measures which would tend to prolong the session. SECRECY TENDS TOWARD DELAY. The refusal of the governor and the Franchise league to give out the names of senators and representatives who have agreed to limit the session adds to the uncertainty surrounding what may* be done. When the assembly convenes It will be Impossible so- the public to tell who has agreed to limit the session and who has not. For this* reason It will be comparatively easy for some member who has agreed to limit the session to support a movement which would prolong it. The pledges of the necessary twothirds of the memiers of the legislature were placed In the hands of Gov. Goodrich at o o'clock yesterday afternoon and the call for the 'egislature to convene at 10 o’clock Friday morning was Immediately issued. The women stated that they had the signatures of thirty-five senators and seventy representatives. The last senators to agree to the Good*fich plan were Edward I’. Eisner of Seymour and Joseph XI. Cravens of Madison, democrats, and Curtis D. Meeker of/ Monticello and Will Brown of republicans.

As the governor has no authority to limit the session to the consideration of any one subject, nothing was said in the call about the subject matter that will be taken up. CALL ISSUED BY GOVERNOR. The call reads as tollows: “The constitution of the state devolves upon the governor the duty of calling a special session of the -general assembly whenever in bis opinion the public service shall require it. “In my opinion the public welfare does now require a special session of the general assembly of the state of Indiana. “Therefore, I, James P. Goodrich, by virtue of the authority so conferred upon me as the governor of said state, do hereby call upon the general assembly of the to convene.in special session on FriHTy, Jan. 16, A. D., li*2o, at the hour of ■0 o’clock a. m. ■ “In witness whereof I have hereunto set pny hand and caused to be affixed the | great seal of the state of Indiana, at the 'capitol In the city of Indianapolis this 13th day of January in the year of our Lord, 1920, in the year of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and forty-fourth, and In the year of the admission of the state of Indiana, the one hundred and fourth. “JAMES P. GOODRICH, Governor.” By the governor: William A. Roach, Secretary of State. PRESENTATION' NOT G. O. P. MONOPOLY. Unlike the delegation of women who were presented the original plan for a limited session, the delegation which turned the pledges over to the governor Mas composed of both republicans* and democrats. They were Helen Benbridge, republican, president of the Franchise League; Mrs. J. F. Barnhill, republican, first vice president of the Franchise League; Mrs. Isaac Born, director of the league and democratic chairman of the Seventh district; Mrs. Horace C. Stllwell of Anderson, Miss Betsy J. Edvards of Shelbyvllle, an organizer employed by the* republican national committee; Mrs. Wilmer Christian, former president of the Franchise League; Miss Gertrude McHugh, assistant secretary of the democratic state committee; Mrs. Charles A. Butler, secretary of the women’s department of the publican state committee. They were accompanied by Frederick E. Schortemeier, secretary of (he republican state committee. No definite plans have been made for the introduction of the ratification resolution, but it is believed it will be introduced in the senate and then sent to the house. There is no limitation except the agreement to the subject matter which may be taken up by the assembly. So far as can be determined, there will be nothing to prevent minority members, who have not signed the agreement, from introducing bills and resolutions. Among the bills which probably will be introduced if the administration is not successful In holding the assembly to the the consideration of the suffrage amendment will be a bill for the appropriation of funds by the state for the construction of a war memorial building to house the national headquarters of the American legion. BUSH CENTER OF SPECULATION. Speculation was centered on Lieut. Gov. Bush. At the opening of the last session he made a speech, in which be attacked Mie Goodrich administration for its centralization policy! He has refused to sign the agreement to limit the special session to the consideration of suffrage and It is believed by many that he will open the session with a speech, in which he will tell what hb thinks of the governor’s plan to trottle the legislature. Jesse Eschbaeh, chief examiner of (he state board of accounts, will take the speaker’s chair in the house of representatives, despite the fact that he holds another state position. It is not believed. that, there will be any objection to his action. According to Mr. Eschbach, all the employes of the house during the 1919 session will be retained. They are John Theil of Lake county, principal clerk; A. L. Stage of Knights(Continued on Page Eleven.) WEATHER, Local Forecast—Fair tonight, with lowest temperature about 15 degrees; Thursday fair and somewhat warmer. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. 6 a. m 16 (► 7 a. m IS 8 a. m 15 9 p. m 16 10 a. m 17 11 a. m 18 12 (noon) 19 Sun sets today, 1:43; rises tomorrow, 7:04; sets. 4:44. One year ago today, highest tempera- j ture, 39; lowest, 27.

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Little “Ange ”Restores Old Love to Youthful Indianapolis Parents

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Mr. and Mrs. Clifford B. McQueen, with baby Mary Babette McQueen in center.

A new happiness lives in the hearts of pMr. and Mrs. Clifford B. McQueen, 1918 j Roosevelt avenue, today. It Is the liap- | piness that only a father and mother can know—for Mary Babette McQueen, their ‘ “little angel,” 3 years old, is to return to their household. Little Mary’s future was straightened - out in a Lafayette (Ind.) court yesterI day, when the judge asked Mrs. Nancy Felix, her grandmother, if she wouldn’t let. Mary’s parents give her the care of a real father and mother. Reluctantly the aged woman acceded to court’s request when Mr. and Mrs. McQueen promised the child the best home they could provide. Mary, through a strange chain of circumstances, came into the possession of her grandmother when she was a wee baby. Mrs. Felix, so the court story goes, could not become reconciled to the man her daughter picked as a husband.

WHAT CHANCE HAS OBREGON? Carranza Sends Force to Put Down Rival's Popularity. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Mexican federal troops are being rushed to the state of Sonora to “suppress the popularity of Gen. Alvaro Obregon, candidate for the presidency,” according to unofficial advices from the border, received here today. Obregon Is a candidate in opposition to Carranza’s party. The message said Carranza was about to put the state under martial law; that he had ordered several battalions of troops to the scene and that his forces were reported already disembarking at Guaymas, on the Gulf of California. Revenue Claims Pile Up Against Mexico AGUA PRIETA, Sonora. .Tan. 14.—A total of '526,927,000 in claims for damages are now pending against the Mexican government, due to losses by revenue trouble, it was announced here today by Gov. Ramirez, who was recently appointed by Carranza, as head of a special commission to adjust these claims. The claims have greatly increased in the last few months, Ramirez said. • ' . Mexicans Hold Three American Negroes AGUA PRIETA, Sonora. Jan. 14. Carranzista military authorities have arrested three American negroes at San Jose, north of Guaymas, charging them with supplying ammunition to roving bands of Villistas. according to word reaching here today. Those arrested were Fred Townsend. Wilbur Lockhart and Paul Harrison, all of New’ York.

Plans for Extra Session Jan. 15 Made by G. O.P. Bosses Dec. 29 At a conference between members of the state republican committee, Will H. Hays, national chairman; Gov. Goodrich and J. W. Fesler, organization candidate for governor, at the Severin Monday, Dec. 29, 1919, it was agreed to call a special session of the legislature for Jan. 15, 1920, and to issue the call so that two days would intervene between the call and the session. On Jan. 13, 1920, Will Hays telegraphed Gov. Goodrich to know why the call was not issued on Jan. 12 as arranged. Goodrich replied that it had been issued, and immediately ordered the date, Jan. 16, Inserted in the prepared call and the same issued. There followed a telephonic communication with Helen Benbridge of the Franchise league, who later took a parcel to the governor which is now declared to have contained the pledges of two-thirds of the legislators to confine the session to ratification of suffrage. No one will attempt to make public the names of the legislators who are said to be pledges to the one-day session, for the reason that two-thirds of the legislators did not sign this pledge. The special session, however, was called in accordance with the plan originated by the republican bosses, with the single exception that it is twenty-four hours later than originally agreed. Helen Benbridge says the women “worked like dogs” to obtain the pledge. No one has explained why they worked so hard to obtain a pledge that, insofar as their purpose was involved, was wholly unnecessary. *

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Her interference, it was reported in court, caused an estrangement between the young couple. They were divorced once, but remarried. The b&by, Mary, however, was given to the grandmother and the aged woman had learned to love it like her own child. It was hard for her to give Mary up. but she did so to help the happy reeonotlation between her daughter and the man who liter proved to be a hero of the -world war. McQueen’s fight for the child was called to the attention of State Senator H. E. Negley when the latter was assisting in filling out questionnaires at the statehouse during the selective draft period. Negley promised to help him get his baby back and to effect a complete reconciliation. This all happened In Lafayette yesterday, when Mrs. Felix promised to turn the. baby over to the young couple in May.

IT ALTS ENVOY GOES TO BERLIN Count on Way to Begin Duties —Fiume Italian Port. PARIS. Jan. 14. —Immediate resumption of diplomatic gelations between Germany and Italy was announced by the Italian delegation here today. Count Oldrovandl, who has been appointed Italian charge d'affaires in Berlin, passed through Paris early today en route to the German city, it was announced. LONDON, .Tan. 14.--The big three has decided Fiume shall be an Italian port under the league of nations, a Paris dispatch to the Chronicle said today. The Flume hinterland, according to the dispatch, will remain Jugo-Slav territory, but Italy will be guaranteed certain economic rights, including use of railways. PARIS, Jan. 14.—W. Lorin Dresel, American commissioner to France, will leave for Berlin toijlght. When he arrives in Berlin diplomatic communication will be resumed with Germany. England, France and Italy will open communication with Germany at the same time. ‘Marse Henry’ Named by Governor FRANKFORT, Ky, Jan. 14.—Gov. Edwin P. Morrow has appointed Henry Watterson, former editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a colonel on his staff. Belgium Gets Loan of $25,000,000 in U. S. NEW YORK, Jan. 14. —Belgium has been granted a loan of $25,000,000 by a syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan & Cos., it was leafned, today. The loan is in the form of one and five-year 6 per cent notes, which will be offered for public subscription.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1920.

DR. M’CULLOCH IN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR RACE Local Physician Announces Candidacy on Self Government Issue. IS THIRD OF HIS PARTY Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch of Indianapolis today* announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination of govrenor. Dr. McCulloch will make his campaign on a platform declaring for the restoration of home rule and local self-govern-ment for all the people in the state. He Is the third avowed candidate for the democratic nomination. John Isenbarger, of North Manchester, was the first to throw his hat into the ring, and Mason .T. Niblack of Vincennes was the second. SELF-GOV BRX M EN T IIIS PLATFORM. In making his announcement Dr. McCulloch said: “I am a candidate for the democrat!l- - for governor of Indi um, and If nominated and elected will earnestly favor: “Restoration of home rule and local self-government for all people. “I am uncompromisingly opposed to any law or policy which compels the people in the different townshis. towns and cities of Indiana to have to go to the statehouse to get permission to arrange their own local affairs. “On these and other subjects I will In the near future speak more fully.” SERVED IN WAR WITH DISTINCTION. Dr. McCulloch for years has been one of the most prominent pjiysioians of Indianapolis. During the car he served in France for eighteen months. Leaving here with base hospital No. .32, he was promoted to the rank og lieutenant colonel, and became commanding officer for Mobile hospital No. 11. He has been active |o democratic affairs In Indianapolis for several years and Is a member of the Indiana Democratic club. He aided in the organization of the Indiana branch of the American Legion.

CHARGE TRUST LAW VIOLATION BY ARMOURS Trade Commissioners Issue Citation for Chicago Packing Concern. Washington. Jnn. It - The federal trade commission today announced it had cited Armour & Cos., Chicago meat pack ers, on charges of unfair competition and of acquiring competing firms in violation of the Clayton anti-trust law. The company was given forty days to answer the citation, after which the case will be set for trial. While the commission's charges were being made public, packers' attorneys and department of Justice officials were in conference over the carrying out of an agreement by the packers to give tip their side lines and confine their activities to the meat business. COMMISSION TO CONTINUE ITS FIGHT. The federal trade commission let it be known at the time the packers’ agreement with the department of Justice was made public that the commission's tight on the packers would not. be dropped, even though the department, of Justice did not proceed with prosecutions under the Sherman anti trust law. The commission’s complaint charges that Armour A- Cos. acquired the Lookout Refining Company of Chattanooga, Tonti . refiners and dealers in cottonseed oil, lard substitutes and cooking oil, and the Harris Tannery Company, which was later known as the Sj-lva Taunlng Company, Kylva, N. C. ALLEGE ACQUISITION OF THREE COMPANIES. The alleged acquisition of these companies by Armour, the commission charges, eliminated two concents from competition with Armour, “restrained interstate commerce in the commodities in w’hich they dealt, and tended to create monopolistic conditions in favor of Armour & Cos. in the sections of the country in which these two former competitors operated.” Both companies, the commission charged, were taken over by corporations whose stocks was issued to persons connected with Armour & Cos. Plan Coal Hearing ' for Many Cities WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.—Hearings in many cities in the coal regions were planned today by President Wilson's coal commission which is eonsidcring the claims of miners for higher wages and shorter hours. The program of traveling now under consideration would prolong the investigation several months. Places where hearings would be held would include Springfield and Franklin county, Illinois; Terre Haute and Evansville, Indianapolis, Zanesville and Portsmonth, O.; Paducah, Ky.; St. Louis and Kansas City. Realtors to Hear Advertising Talk

The Indianapolis Real Estate Board j 'will hold the weekly luncheon at the i Chamber of Commerce tomorrow noon. ! G. P. Olwlh, secretary-manager of the j Better Business Bureau, will talk on j co-operative real estate advertising and j truth in real estate advertising. The board of directors of the local | real estate board will meet this afterI noon to pass on twenty new active members and two associate members. The | membership committee have already passed on these applications. Jugo-Slavs Attack American Marines LONDON. Jan.. 14- —A Central News dispatch from Rome today said news had been received there fyom Spalato that Jugo-Slavs had attacked American marines, killing one and wounding two. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Secretary of Navy Daniels stated today that he was without advices- as to the reported attack upon American marines at Spalato. Secretary Daniels stated he had a dispatch from Admiral Andrews, who is In charge of the naval forces along the Adriatic, which stated that everything was “going along smoothly,’’ yesterday.

GERMANY UNDER MARTIAL LA W; NEW MAY HEAR VERDICT TODAY

MURDER JURY EXPECTED TO MAKE REPORT Deliberations Resumed Following Night Spent Behind Locked Doors. NO INKLING OF FATE * LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14. —The jury which will decide the fate of Harry S. New, accused of murdering -Frieda Lesser, was deliberating early today. The jurors were given the case late yesterla.\ afternoon and when they had not reached an agreement at 11 p. m. were ordered locked up for the night. The alleged son of United States Senator Harry New of Indiana has been defended on tile ground that several of the kindred of his mother, Mrs. Lillian Berger, bare been of unsound mind; that his mind, naturally weak, was preyed upon by his unfortunate social status. It was argued that when the young man killed the girl he was mentally Irresponsible. Jud R. Russ for the defense urged the jury to find New Insane, adding that he should be placed in an asylum for the remainder of bis life. Yesterday the twentieth day of the actual trial, one of the youth’s attorneys waived right to argument and another limited his time to twenty five minutes. Thomas Lee Wool wine, district attorney, closed his argument shortly tiefore 3:30 p. m. „ Judge Craig then instructed the jurors and turned the case over to.them. It was reported that the last ballots stood ten for an acquittal “because of insanity” and two for conviction of manslaughter.

SAYS HE WARNED CAPTAIN DETZER Lieutenant Afraid Flareup Would Be Result. NEW YORK. Jan. 14.—Capt. Karl W. Detzer seemed to consider him “only one ignorant policeman” and ignored his warnings that trouble was sore to follow inhuman treatment of military prisoners. Lieut. Leonard D. Mahan. Washington, told the military court-martial at Goti riM.r> I sly nd todn v. Mahan testified for the defense In rebuttal during the trial of (’apt. Detzer. who is charged with abuse of prisoners while iie was head of the department of criminal investigation in the A. E. F. at Camp at I,e Mans. He was an officer under in the "D. C. I." at Le linns. Mahan denied he had ever herfteti prisoners.as was testified by witnesses during the trial and said ho was at Amiens from Feb. 12 to 28. when he was alleged to have beaten a private named Warner. WILL ASK BIDS ON TECH SHOPS The new half million dollar shop unit planned for the Arsenal Technical schools will be erected during the com ing year. The board of school commissioners, at a meeting last night, voted to advertise for the sale of $550,000 bonds to provide money for the erection of the shop unit. The architect’s preliminary sketch of a building, to be partly two stories high, and partly three stories high, <vas approved. Clarence E. Crlppin was elected president of the board, and Mrs. Julia B. Tutewller was elected vice president. Albert Baker was re-eiected attorney, and h\s salary Increased from $1,500 to $2,500. The salary schedule* drawn up by Superintendent E. U. Graff several months ago was expuined to William D. Allison and Bert. S. Gadd, incoming members of the board. The board hopes to increase salaries next year to a point VYb re they wlll equal those paid in other large cities. The proposed minimum salary is SI,OOO annually.

Indiana Steel Blast Kills One; Hurts Many INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., Jan. 14. One man was Instantly killed, another was blown Into Lake Michigan, and several others were seriously hurt in an explosion of a hot mill In the Inland 1 Steel plant here last night. The exact cause of the explosion is | not known. The man blown Into the lake was “fished” out alive. He Is not | expected to live, however. Injured were taken to the plant hospital. Trolley Car Kills Big Gray Timber Wolf PITTSBURG, Kns., Jan. 140.—Fifteen ! dollars was picked up by D. C. H atson, I motorman on an interurban car. on a | crip from Fittsburg to Joplin a few [ jays ago when a big gray timber wolf i tried to cross the track in front of Wat- ! son’s car, which was doing better than i fifty miles an hour. The wolf evidently miscalculated the speed at which the interurban was trav- , eling and was decapitated by the wheels | of the car. Watson received the sls when he- took : the wolfs head to Columbus, Kas. Delays Giving Out U. S. Note to Japan WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Secretary of State Lansing today stated that he was not yet ready to make public the note sent to the Japanese relative to the withdrawal of troops from Siberia. He stated that the note Is being received in broken form in Japan and he desired to be certain that it bad been entirely received in Japan before made public here. Americanize Voters First, Teachers Plea 1 BERKELEY, Cal., Jan. 14.—Americanize native born Americans first, is the advice' given by Prof. J. W. Breitwieser of the department of education of the University of California. Prof. Breitwieser stated -that the greatest economic problem in this country today is Americanizing the registered American voter.

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CHARGES STOCK COMPANY FRAUD

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Mrs. Morris, who lives at 3440 Bellefou -i tale street, says she bought 100 shares of the National Atlantic Petroleum Company stock fronv W. E. Young & Cos.. W. E. Youug, the head of which is under arrest on a charge of false pretense and grand larceny. It was her evidence of the alleged Irregularities of the company which caused the arrest of Young.

ANOTHER HOME OFFERED BABY Amboy (Ind.) Woman Wants Child of Chicago Girl. Katherine Helms, the deserted IS-year-old Chicago bride of a year who wants to give away her baby when it is /burn, has started something in Indiana. On top of a bid for the child made by a Mooreland (Ind.) man through The Times yesterday today comes a plea for possession of the unborn infant from Mrs. A. Croshaw of R. 1, Amboy (Ind.) “We have no children and I would be pleased, oh, so pleased, to take that baby,” writes Mrs. Croshaw. Mrs. Croshaw is so much interested in the baby that she declares she will take the young woman Into her home until the child is born. ’ “But I’d want the baby always, just as my own,” she says. TEUTON TROOPS LEAVE PROVINCE U. S. Marines tAssigned to Duty in Schleswig-Holstein. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Germany has begun the withdrawal of her military forces from Schleswig-Holstein, the state department was advised today. A prefecture has been established there and it is understood that several companies of American marines have been assigned to that country. Railway Clerks Get Wage Agreement WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks today received a national agreement from the railroad administration similar to those granted to the railroad shopmen and the maintenance* of way men and in addition was granted a time and a half overtime clause on a twenty-six-day month basis. The agreement covers nearly 590,000 railroad workers, taking in railroad clerks, express employes, station and freight employes. There was jubilation today at the headquarters of the brotherhood. Indianapolis Freight Terminals Virtually One Great Station The various railroad freight terminals in Indianapolis lie so near together that they might almost be regarded as joint terminals. The two principal groups of freight houses are less than a block apart. The two most remote groups are separated by only ten blocks. All freight stations are within easy reach of the wholesale district. Indianapolis is a convenient city. —Prepared for The Times by the convention board In charge of arrangements for the coming convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. y

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JURY QUIZZES ALLEGED STOCK FRAUD VICTIMS Persons Who Bought W. E. Young & Cos. Securities Tell of Transactions. *7“ Investigation of the affairs and activi- j ties of the W. E. Young and Company, j brokers, with offices in the Knights of j Pythias building, was begun today by j the grand jury acting under information brought before it by Prosecuting Attor- j i:ey Claris Adams. The action followed . the arrest yesterday of Willard Young, ; 21 years old, head of the firm, on charges j of falSe pretense and grand larceny and j Hit issuance of a warrant on the same j charge for Charles R. Ellis, a salesman : for the company. The activities of the prosecutor fol- ; lowed information that salesmen of the j company were making broad promises j regarding the earnings and the inonevmaking possibilities of the National At- | lontic Petroleum Company stock which | they were selling. Every person who j 1 purchased stock in _ the company from | thi firm las been subpoenaed. Young, debonair and slender, dressed j flashy, appeared not a bit worried as i he was slated at police headquarters. / A \ man sab! to be an employe of his office, i named fcfiiuson, put up $250 in cash and i '>sosl. in Liberty bonds as security for j the appearance of Young when wanted, j The youthful broker then walked out of the station with his attorney, Michael A Ryan, of the firm o f Ryan, Rueirclsliaus and Ryan. WOMAN SWEARS OUT WARRANT. The affidavit was sworn out on information furnished by Mrs. Clara Morris, 3440 Bellefontaine street, who bought j 100 shares of the National Atlantic Pe- j troleum Company stock from Charles K. I Ellis, salesman for Young. Mrs. Morris paid the brokerage firm, she says, $223 in cash and S2OO in liberty bonds for the j stock. The affidavit against Young and Ellis charges that on Jan. 5 they “knowingly j and falsely represented and pretended to j Clara M. Morris that certain stocks, towit, fifty shares of capital stock of the National Atlantic Petroleum Company, was of the value of sl2 and that Stoughton A. Fletcher of Indianapolis had bought more than SI,OOO worth of the stock.” The affidavit was filed and the arrests ; followed after an order was issued that; all the records of the W. E. Young Cpm- j pany be brought before the county grand I Jury for investigation. The records were j obtained by Sergt. Worley. The grand jnrv began an Investigation today of the methods used by the company in transacuug business in Indianapolis. Mrs. Norris told the prosecutor she j has made other investments through the j company besides L. . one referred to In j the affidavit. Mr. Adams said he was i not convinced that an investigation of j the company's affairs would disclose j anything wrong, but he was ordering j an investigation In acocrdance with the j wishes of ,rs. Morris and other persons. ' The witnesses who will testify before ; the grand jury today are Bernard E. j Griffey, 340 North Delaware street; Fred ! N. Chastain, 20 South Neal street; L. A. j Corcoran, Lincoln hotel; J. N. Fatout, 140 j East Court street; Edward C. Matthews. ; 733 East Morris street; Fred Noffke, 2444 Mnrtindale avenue; F. E. Blackman, 3433 | East Tenth street; H. H. Jackson, 531 Capitol avenue, and Mrs. Morris. Young and his company has done a big business in Indianapolis, it is said. The inner offices in the Knights of Phythias building are furnished in magnificent style, according to those who have been i in them. Their salesmen have operated ] with great confidence. A reporter of The Times had an ex- j perience with a man stating that he was ! a salesman for W. E. Young & Cos. His method of working was as follows: The salesman called his “prospect” by j telephone. He told of the stock his firm ‘ (Continued on

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RED ASSAULT ON REICHSTAG FATAL TO 22 Situation Serious, but Not of Revolt Proportions, Officials Assert. GUARD ALLIED MISSIONS BERLIN, Jan. 14.—A state of siege throughout all Germany except the southern part and the areas occupied by allied troops was declared today by President Ebert, following the attack upon the Reichstag building Tuesday by independent socialists and communists, when twenty-two persons were killed. Fifty or more were wounded. Troops supported by machine guns were rushed to the defense of the Reichstag building by Herr Noske, minister of defense (war minister). ■While the situation Is admittedly serious, it has not reached the gravity of a revolution, officials say. The independent socialists who staged yesterday’s demonstration are openly aiming and working for a revolution. NCMBER OF DEAD OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED. The announcement that twenty-two persons were killed in the fighting between mobs and troops around the Reichstag building was made at 5 o’clock Tuesdayg-afternoon by Herr Frehnbach, an official of the national assembly and former president of the reichstag. The government states that “the demonstrations have been quelled." It is estimated that 30,000 communists and independent socialists, mast of tneux working men who left the factories to take part in the demonstration, surged through the Under den Linden and about the Reichstag building.,; Immediately after the fighting It was rumored that a score had been killed. After the demonstrators had been driven off the bodies were carried Into the court adjoining the Reichstag building. STREETS RESEMBLE BATTLE SCENE. The streets about the Reichstag building today resembled a battle scene with barbed wire entanglements, troops on lentry duty and machine guns posted at strategic points. Reinforcements of machine guns and light artillery were held in reserve in the CVent of a fresh outbreak of fighting. Military guards were also thrown about the Adlon hotel, where the members of the allied missions are living. The majority of the members of the national assembly were attending the session of that body when the independent socialists and communists made their first attempt to storm the Reichstag -building. % There was a heavy burst of firing outside, which quickly put an eud to the deliberations. Dr. Ahrens, formerly an attache of the German embassy at Washington, and several other members were on their way to the building, when they were caught In the line of fire. All escaped. BAILWAY STRIKE DISORDERS REPORTED.

Disorders in the Ruhr district and In Upper Silesia in connection with the railway strike, also are reported. The government is determined to use every means to suppress the strike, it was announced. The railway strikers have succeeded in cutting off telegraphic communication from western Germany, where the strike has been most successful. Rumors that the communists would take advantage of the situation to call a general strike in an attempte to overthrow the government are current. OUTBREAK DUE TO GOVERNMENT POLICY. The outbreak here was believed to be a direct result of the government’s new policy of allowing peaceful demonstrations. Many leaders pointed out it would hare been impossible had Gustav Noske, minister of defense, continued his former policy of ruthless quelling of all attempts at radical demonstrations. Reports here Indicated the outbreak was widespread. Rioting has occurred at Hambron, in Rhenish Prussia, where mobs were said to have rushed the town hall, destroying the records. Similar riots occurred In villages in the Hamborn district. The worst of the fighting was over at 4 o'clock, but new outbreaks were feared for some time. Scattered mobs continued to straggle through the streets. The red flag was in evidence in some quarters. The immediate occasion ot the outburst, it was said, was consideration of a measure to create factory councils by the reichstag. It grew out of the widespread demands of radicals for communication of industry. Independent socialists complained the measure did not meet the workers’ needs and an appeal was published in Die Frelhe|t calling for a demonstration. Union members were asked to meet in front of the reichstag at 3 o’clock In the afternoon. ‘ After the rioting some union leaders said the newspaper's appeal was not authorized. GERMAN RIOTS LOWER EXCHANGE NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Political troubles In Germany had a depressing effect on most of the foreign exchange quotations here today. German marks and Vienna kronen made new low records at $.0154 and $.0042, respectively. Demand sterling was off (4c at $3.72*4 and franc checks off 1 centime at 11.26. Sims Criticizes Navy Policy, Daniels Says WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Secretary of Navy Daniels stated today that he had received a long and critical letter from Admiral Sims, delatlve to the' policy of the navy during the war. Secretary Daniels said he would not discuss the latter until after Admiral Sims has testified before the senate naval affairs committee on Friday. Cupid Drops Back in Matrimonial Race Cupid is several laps behind In the 1920 matrimonial race. There have been 173 divorce decreea granted here in a week’s time. During the same period about ninety marriage licenses were issued.